Introduction 11
Software Release 2.6.1
C613-02025-00 REV C
■ IPv6 multicast routing support, including Multicast Listener Discovery
(MLDv2) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse and Dense
Modes.
■ OSPF, RIP (IP and Novell®), SAP (Novell®), EGP and BGP routing
protocols.
■ ARP, Proxy ARP and Inverse ARP address resolution protocols.
■ Sophisticated packet filtering.
■ Bridging.
■ Van Jacobson’s header compression, STAC LZS and Predictor compression,
and hardware-based and DES encryption.
■ Create secure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) across the Internet or any
other public or shared IP network, using AT-VPNet.
■ Tunnelling of synchronous (HDLC) data through TCP/IP.
■ Terminal serving using Telnet, with local host nicknames.
■ Access to network printers via LPD or TCP streams.
■ Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for delivering quality of service to
application data streams.
■ TPAD support for fast credit card authorisation transactions.
■ A fully featured, stateful inspection firewall.
■ IPsec-compliant IP security services.
■ Integration with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
■ Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).
■ Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4).
■ Load Balancing for distributing traffic among multiple resources.
■ Software Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
■ Voice over IP (VoIP).
■ 802.1x port authentication.
Special Feature Licences
You need a special feature licence and password to activate some special
features over and above the standard software release. Typically, these special
features are covered by government security regulations. Special feature
licences and passwords are quite separate and distinct from the standard
software release licences and passwords. Some of the software features that
require a special feature licence are:
■ Triple DES S/W
■ Firewall SW
■ Firewall SMTP Application Gateway
■ Firewall HTTP Application Gateway
■ DES encryption
■ IPv6
■ IP Multicast routing: DVMRP and PIM-Sparse Mode
■ IPX routing